Game of Thrones George R.R Martin
6 books set series collection epic dimensions, thronged with memorable
characters, a story of treachery and ambition, love and magic.
Description
A Dance with Dragons
In
the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms
hangs in the balance once again–beset by newly emerging threats from
every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of
House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built
on dust and death. But Daenerys has three times three thousand enemies,
and many have set out to find her. Yet, as they gather, one young man
embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different
goal in mind. To
the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone–a structure only as
strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of
the Night’s Watch, will face his greatest challenge yet. For he has
powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of
the creatures of ice.
A Game of Thrones
First
volume of a brilliant new fantasy trilogy: the most powerful, original
and absorbing new epic since Stephen Donaldson’s Chronicles of Thomas
Covenant. The first volume of George R R Martin’s glorious high fantasy
tells the tragic story of treachery, greed and war that threatens the
unity of the Seven Kingdoms south of the Wall. Martin unfolds with
astonishing skill a tale of truly epic dimensions, thronged with
memorable characters, a story of treachery and ambition, love and magic.
Set in a fabulous world scarred by battle and catastrophe over 8000
years of recorded history, it tells of the deeds of men and women locked
in the deadliest of conflicts and the terrible legacy they will leave
their children. In the game of thrones, you win or you die. And in the
bitter-cold, unliving lands beyond the Wall, a terrible winter gathers
and the others — the undead, the neverborn, wildlings to whom the threat
of the sword is nothing — make ready to descend on the realms of men. A
Game of Thrones begins the most imaginative, ambitious and compelling
fantasy epic since The Lord of the Rings. Thronged with memorable
characters, it unfolds with astonishing skill a tale of truly epic
dimensions. There have been many pretenders to the throne of Tolkien:
now at last he has a true heir.
A Clash of Kings
A
comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the
ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell,
chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and
the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims
through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots
against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess
masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for
a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the
Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and
fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women
possessed of the coldest steel…and the coldest hearts. For when kings
clash, the whole land trembles.
A Storm of Swords
The
third volume of his six-volume fantasy epic A Song of Ice and Fire, A
Storm of Swords continues Martin’s vigorous account of the civil wars
which follow the death of King Robert, the usurper who deposed a dynasty
gone mad and dangerous, and the judicial murder by his widow and heir
of Ned Stark, the man who made him king. The surviving Stark children
are scattered–Robb leading revolt in the North, Arya learning hard
lessons as she treks through the war zone, Sansa an observer of court
intrigue, crippled Bran heading towards a sorcerous destiny, Jon engaged
in desperate defence of the icewall against barbarians and worse
things. Daenerys, pretender and ruler of dragons, is building an empire
elsewhere. And characters we have thought of as villains, notably Jaime
Kingslayer, are developing belated consciences … Martin keeps on upping
the ante of violence and betrayal in this compelling saga of a fantasy
middle ages soiled with blood and mud; his economic use of magic and his
fascination with complex characters make this the sword-and-sorcery
series for people with adult taste. As the series proceeds, his writing
gets ever leaner and sharper, the evocation of the magical ever more
sinister
A Feast for Crows
The
fourth volume in the hugely popular and highly acclaimed epic fantasy.
There is passion here, and misery and charm, grandeur and squalor,
tragedy, nobility and courage. Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning,
the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the
boy-king Tommen. But fear and deceit are in the air: their enemies are
poised to strike. The Martells of Dorne seek vengeance for their dead,
and the heir of King Balon of the Iron Isles, Euron Crow’s Eye, is as
black a pirate as ever raised a sail. Across the war-torn landscape of
the Seven Kingdoms, Brienne the Beauty (thus named in mockery of her
great size and strength) seeks for Sansa Stark, having vowed to protect
Sansa from the wrath of Queen Cersei, Tommen’s power-hungry mother.
Meanwhile apprentice Maester Samwell Tarly brings a mysterious babe in
arms south to the Citadel from the cruel frozen north where the sinister
Others threaten the Wall! ‘A Feast for Crows’ brings to life dark
magic, complex political intrigue and horrific bloodshed. Against a
backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to
the men and women possessed of the coldest steel!and the coldest
hearts.
